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The Rascal
by Eric Arvin2nd EditionLana is a faded movie star who lives alone in a big house on a hill that overlooks the sea. She has lived this way since the death of her daughter and the disappearance of her husband. Jeff and Chloe are a couple who live in a cabin below the big house. It was Chloe’s idea to strengthen their marriage, but she sees now that it isn’t working. Jeff has become obsessed with the cabin and an old well. Chloe only sees strangeness around her. One night while talking on the computer with Ethan, Jeff’s brother, a feeling of dread comes to the fore. When Ethan sees a figure behind Chloe, he leaves his boyfriend and baby and sets out to save Jeff. Chloe, Ethan and Lana come together to fight an evil that would destroy Jeff. Will they succeed or will all of them fall to the taste of a young cannibalistic ghost?First Edition published by Wilde City Press, October 2015.
The Realm: Book One (The Realm)
by L. Marie Wood Eric BattleYou thought you were dead.Waking up and looking all around you, you realize all you learned about The Afterlife was a fantasy. You don't know where you are, but you do know it's not a pleasant or suitable place. You need to run. Hard and fast.Eventually, you meet others doomed to live in this terrifying Realm with you. Here are gathered the newly dead from all over the universe. A formidable race of giant beasts hunts them. The likes of which have never been seen by those in the living world. This place is like nothing you ever learned about in life - neither Heaven nor Hell, neither Purgatory nor Sheol.You encounter clusters of people huddled together for safety. You're a lone wolf – they don't trust you, nor you them. Perhaps with good reason.Patrick is key to the future of The Realm. He must right old wrongs and fight against all the terrors it has in store. He must fight to save his family and, most importantly, all of his descendants. His revelations will impact the living world, as well as what comes next.Patrick is the future of humanity.Can he succeed?
The War of the Worlds, Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies
by H. G. Wells Eric BrownA thrilling literary mash-up that blends a mounting zombie invasion into mankind's struggle for survival against an apocalyptic alien threat.
La Casa Sotto il Ponte
by Iain Rob Wright Eric Cominetto"Dall’autore di bestseller horror Iain Rob Wright arriva il suo romanzo più spaventoso." È possibile che è un luogo sia infettato dal male? Alcune atrocità sono così tremende da contaminare la terra stessa? E che cosa succederebbe se ti trovassi intrappolato in un luogo simile? Quello che inizia con un incidente stradale su un vecchio ponte finisce con il sacrificio definitivo. Segui i sopravvissuti di un terribile incidente mentre tentano di comprendere il loro destino e di trovare aiuto. Tom e Sophie Sumner sono sposati da dieci anni. Non arriveranno a undici. L’infedeltà e il disinteresse hanno fatto a pezzi la loro relazione e le loro strade si separano oggi. Sophie sta per tornare a casa nel villaggio in cui è cresciuta. Cottontree. Se esiste una possibilità per Tom di persuaderla a concedere un’ultima possibilità al loro matrimonio, deve agire ora. Ma Cottontree è un luogo dal passato molto più oscuro di quanto chiunque sappia e i Sumner stanno per avere dei problemi molto più gravi del loro matrimonio. "Un terrificante viaggio nella natura della vita, della morte e del rimpianto." "Iain Rob Wright mi spaventa a morte." - J.A. Konrath, autore di bestseller. "Iain Rob Wright è malato e perverso." - David Moody, autore dell’acclamata serie 'Autumn'.
The Ghost of Frederic Chopin (Walter Presents)
by Eric FayeAn intricately plotted mystery and an engrossing story imbued with the foggy atmosphere of post-Communist Prague, the third book in the Walter Presents Library is a bewitching mystery about a woman who claims to transcribe music from the ghost of Chopin.Prague, 1995: Vera Foltynova, a widow in her late 50s, claims to receive visits from the ghost of great composer Frederic Chopin. What's more, she declares that Chopin has dictated dozens of compositions to her, to allow the world to hear the sublime music he was unable to create in his own short life. Many dismiss her story as a ridiculous hoax, while others swear that the music has the same beauty and refinement as the work of the dead master.Ludvik Slany, a secret police agent-turned-television journalist, is assigned to make a documentary debunking Vera's claims. He arrives in Prague ready to uncover a scam, but the more he subtly tries to trick her into giving herself away, the more he begins to think he may be witnessing a genuine miracle...The Ghost of Frederic Chopin is an engrossing story of music, faith and the ghosts of the past.
Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away
by Eric G. WilsonWhy can't we look away? Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: as conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway, and there's no slaking our thirst for gory entertainments like horror movies and police procedurals. What makes these spectacles so irresistible? In Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, the scholar Eric G. Wilson sets out to discover the source of our attraction to the gruesome, drawing on the findings of biologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and artists. A professor of English literature and a lifelong student of the macabre, Wilson believes there's something nourishing in darkness. To repress death is to lose the feeling of life, he writes. A closeness to death discloses our most fertile energies. His examples are legion and startling in their diversity. Citing everything from elephant graveyards and Susan Sontag's On Photography to the Tiger Woods sex scandal and Steel Magnolias, Wilson finds heartening truths wherever he confronts death. In Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, the perverse is never far from the sublime. The result is a powerful and delightfully provocative defense of what it means to be human - for better and for worse.
Supernatural: One Year Gone
by Rebecca Dessertine Eric KripkeDean believes that Sam is in Hell so he is trying to keep his promise to his brother and live a normal live with Lisa and Ben. When he realizes that a spell in the Necronomicon could raise Lucifer and therefore Sam, he convinces his new family to travel with him on vacation to Salem. Meanwhile Sam is not as far away as Dean thinks and is determined to protect his brother from the Salem witches...A Supernatural novel that reveals the untold events of the missing year between seasons 5 and 6!
The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories
by Eric LaRoccaA beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes. Includes an introduction from acclaimed bestselling author Chuck Wendig.Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose. In these narratives, a woman imagines horrific scenarios whilst caring for her infant niece; on-line posts chronicle a cancer diagnosis; a couple in the park with their small child encounter a stranger with horrific consequences; a toxic relationship reaches a terrifying resolution…Originally published under the title The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales, this is a much-praised collection of deeply unsettling, painfully dark tales.
This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
by Eric LaRoccaA brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award®-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.THIS SKIN WAS ONCE MINEWhen her father dies under mysterious circumstances, Jillian Finch finds herself grieving the man she idolized while struggling to feel comfortable in the childhood home she was sent away from nearly twenty years ago. Then Jillian discovers a dark secret that will threaten to undo everything she has ever known about her father.SEEDLING A young man&’s father calls him early in the morning to say that his mother has passed away. He arrives home to find his mother&’s body still in the house. Struggling to process what has happened he notices a small black wound appear on his wrist. Then he discovers his father is cursed with the same affliction. ALL THE PARTS OF YOU THAT WON&’T EASILY BURNEnoch Leadbetter goes to buy a knife for his husband to use at a forthcoming dinner party. He encounters a strange shopkeeper who draws him into an intoxicating new obsession and sets him on a path towards mutilation and destruction...PRICKLETwo old men revive a cruel game with devastating consequences...
The Haunted Howl (Key Hunters #3)
by Eric LuperIn this thrilling adventure, two friends get trapped in a ghost story where one falls prey to a werewolf’s curse.Cleo and Evan have a secret. A collection of books so dangerous they are locked up tight. A friend has vanished inside the pages of one of them. It’s up to them to find the key that will set her free . . . THE CURSE OF THE FULL MOON MUST BE BROKEN!On a dark and stormy night, Cleo and Evan are haunted by a disaster. Evan has been bitten by a werewolf! If they can’t find the cure—and the right key—before the full moon rises, he’ll be stuck prowling the pages of this ghost story for good!Praise for Key Hunters“Luper’s delectable humor is appropriate for the intended age group, and the plot will keep readers’ attention to the end . . . [t]his is a satisfying read for beginning independent readers.” —School Library Journal
First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
by Eric MccormackA masterpiece of the sexual gothic, this is the story of Andrew Halfnight, whose life, part dream, part nightmare, begins with a mother's tragic choice and ends with a lover's embrace. In between he experiences tempests at sea, on land and in the mind; and relatives who kill for love and lovers who sacrifice their bodies; as all the while he moves ever closer to the central mystery of his and all existence. First Blast is Eric McCormack at his finest.
The Paradise Motel
by Eric MccormackFrom the acclaimed author of Cloud and The Dutch Wife, an early novel of Gothic terror that creeps into the blood and captivates with hypnotic fascination.On his deathbed, Ezra Stevenson's grandfather bequeaths him a macabre tale of domestic violence. Driven to investigate his grandfather's account of the four Mackenzie children and their monstrous family history, Ezra embarks on a horrific voyage of discovery, deception and revelation.
The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula
by Eric NuzumFrom the Book jacket: THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST is about vampires, death, chickens, fear, things that smell bad, the love of a good woman, and germs...but mostly it's about vampires. The undead are everywhere. They're not just in movies and books, but in commercials, fetish clubs, and even your breakfast cereal. If you look, you'll discover that bloodsuckers have gone from guest spots in rural folktales to becoming some of the most recognizable bad guys in the modern world. Eric Nuzum wanted to find out how and why this happened. And he found the answer in goth clubs, darkened parks, haunted houses, and...chain restaurants. Nuzum was willing to do whatever it took to better understand the vampire phenomenon. He traveled across Transylvania on a tour hosted by Butch Patrick (a.k.a. Eddie Munster), sat through Las Vegas's only topless vampire revue, hung out with assorted shady characters, and spent hours in a coffin. He even drank his own blood-just one more step in his quest to understand the weird, offbeat world of vampires and the people who love them. The Dead Travel Fast is the hilarious result of this bloody, gory, and often foolhardy journey. With his unmatched firsthand experience, Eric Nuzum delivers a wide-ranging look at vampires in pop culture, from Bram to Bela to Buffy, and at what vampires and vampirism have come to mean to us today. And the blood? Let's just say it doesn't go with eggs. ERIC NUZUM is a recovering pop culture critic, VHI pundit, and author of Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America. He writes a lot of inane stuff that falls somewhere between the styles of Ted Kaczynski and Robert Frost, with a dash of inappropriate jokes thrown in for good measure. Nuzum was awarded the 2002 RTNDA National Edward R. Murrow Award for newswriting, and his work has appeared in a few publications you've heard of and many more that you haven't. He works for National Public Radio in Washington, D.C, and lives with his wife in that same general area. He opines regularly on his Web site, at www.ericnuzum.com.
Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium (Palgrave Gothic)
by Eric ParisotJane Austen and Vampires is the first book to investigate the literary convergence of Jane Austen and vampires in Austen fanfic after the success of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005) and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009). It asks how the shifting cultural values of Austen and the vampire have aligned, and what their connection might mean for their respective contemporary legacies. It also makes a case for reading “low brow” Austen fanfic attentively, as a way to gain meaningful insight directly from Austen fans into the tensions and anxieties surrounding contemporary notions of love, sex, femininity, and Austen’s modern currency. Offering close readings of Austen’s vampire-slaying heroines, vampiric retellings of Pride and Prejudice, and the transformation of Austen herself into a vampire, this book reveals Austen-vampire mashups as messy, complex entanglements that creatively and self-reflexively interrogate modern fantasies of vampire romance. By its unique intersection of Jane Austen with the vampire, the Gothic, fan culture and popular romance, Jane Austen and Vampires adds a new chapter to the history of Austen’s reception, for fans, students and scholars alike.
Big Man Plans (Extended Edition)
by Eric Powell Tim WieschFrom Eric Powell (Eisner award-winning creator) and Tim Wiesch (former bricklayer) comes Big Man Plans: An Expanded Edition. First published in 2015, this brutal crime drama and in-triguing mystery shocked readers with its visceral violence and heart wrenching tragedy.Big Man is a little person who has been brutalized and abused his entire existence. A person born to be life's punching bag...or so it appears. He just might also be one of the deadliest killers ever trained by (REDACTED). He might also be slightly insane. And when someone he loves is wronged, well, even the most marginalized in society can exact revenge if they don't care how they do it.This expanded edition comes with over 30 pages of added story and bonus material content!
Four Gathered on Christmas Eve
by Eric PowellFour of the top creators in comics gather to continue the Victorian tradition of ghost stories on Christmas Eve.Four tales of the bizarre and terrifying to keep you company on the cold yule night. A unique approach to the ghost story format where the creators themselves become part of the story in this deluxe edition hard cover designed by the award-winning Phil Balsman.
Hillbilly Volume 1
by Eric PowellEric Powell's Appalachian Mountain fantasy epic that tells the story of Rondel. A lonely figure who wanders the wooded hills among witches and magical creatures as a folktale hero to those who dwell in this gritty dream world.
Hillbilly Volume 2
by Eric PowellThe second volume in Eisner Award winner Eric Powell's Appalachian fantasy epic collecting issues #5-8. Rondel, with the Devil's Cleaver, wanders the hills as the witchy and monstrous descend upon him.
Hillbilly Volume 3
by Eric PowellThe third volume in Eisner Award winner Eric Powells Appalachian fantasy epic. Rondel wields the Devils Cleaver against the united evil of the hills.
Hillbilly Volume 4: Red-Eyed Witchery From Beyond
by Eric PowellWriter Eric Powell (The Goon) and artist Simone Di Meo (Old Man Logan) bring you the next chapter in the tale of Rondel the wandering Hillbilly. A terror from beyond the stars has descended on the hills to spread fear among the people. When Boss Krugen employs Rondel to find out what this black power has done with his lost kin, Rondel may have found an evil beyond even what the wielder of the Devil's Cleaver can handle. The fourth volume in Eric Powell's Hillbilly series promises to be the strangest yet!
Spookhouse
by Various Eric PowellSpooky fun for kids and adults! Collects issues #1-5 of the kids horror anthology Spook House!
Spookhouse 2
by Various Eric PowellA spooky, funny, and sometimes gross, book for kids of all ages!This Albatross Funnybooks anthology features works by some of the greats in the field of horror and humor comics! Such as William Stout, Eric Powell, Steve Mannion, Jake Smith, Kyle Hotz, Dave Johnson, Brett Parson, Robb Mommaerts, Lance Inkwell, Gideon Kendall, and Logan Faerber!
The Goon (2019-) Vol. 1: A Ragged Return to Lonely Street
by Eric PowellAfter strange adventures abroad, Goon & Franky return to find a horde of unsavory characters have filled the void left in their absence from Lonely Street.For two decades, the Goon's adventures have thrilled fans, critics, and creators with their bold creativity, classic style, and irreverent humor. This volume contains Eric Powell's highly anticipated return to his flagship series for its 20th anniversary. With never before seen bonus sketch material.
The Goon (2019-) Vol. 2: DECEIT OF A CRO-MAGNON DANDY: The Deceit of a Cro-Magnon Dandy
by Tom Sniegoski Eric PowellOne by one, the Goon has taken down the gangs who have sprung up in the Nameless Town in his absence.But he has yet to face the mysterious crime figure know as Dapper... until now. After Goon is framed for the kidnapping of the Limburger Baby, it's not just the brute force of the Neanderthal in the pinstriped suit Goon has to worry about, but the wrath of the furious town out for vengeance. But is Dapper really the one pulling the strings?
The Goon Vol. 1: Bunch of Old Crap, an Omnibus
by Eric PowellOmnibus collections of Eric Powell's Eisner Award-winning series, The Goon!The Nameless Man, the Zombie Priest, has come to town to build a gang from the undead. But even the undead fear the Goon! The Goon: Bunch of Old Crap Volume 1 collects The Goon books 0-3 (The Goon: Rough Stuff, The Goon: Nothing But Misery, The Goon: My Murderous Childhood, and The Goon: Heaps of Ruination).